However when I tried to follow the steps in offline upgrade I don’t understand what I need to do in this step.
Prepare repository list. If you are going to use your extra repositories, it is easier to change them to point to the new URL. Open a terminal, su - to root, change to directory /etc/zypp/repos.d, make a backup copy of the repo files there into a subdirectory, and edit them, for example running “sed -i ‘s/15.3/15.4/g’ /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo” (why not use ${releasever} you will see now). Finally, run “zypper clean” and “zypper ref” — the later will fail if some repo is not found at the new URL. When all the URLs are correct, you can continue. It is easier to do this now, than later during the upgrade with a limited line editor.
How do I know which URLs need to be edited and what do I edit them with?
@Hadrian Hello and welcome to the openSUSE forums.
Better not to hang your new question at the end of an old thread.
Exposure to those who may be able to help you will be much better with a new thread with a good title.
Looks fine to me. But for an upgrade to 15.5 it is easiest when you have $releasever instead of hard-coded 15.4 in the URLs.
That can not be seen from the above list, but you can see it when you look at
zypper releasever FOOBAR lr -d
There should be FOOBAR in all repos where there is 15.4 now.
When not then change that.
Mind that it could be that many or all of them are already having $releasever, that is fine then also for the future.
Mind also that this differs from what you try to follow: changing from 15.4 to 15.5. That is a bit old-fashioned now.
Mind also that you have some non-official URLs without a version, you should be sure that the packages you have from them are also OK for 15.5.
When they say move /var/cache to separate subvolume do I create new folder inside like this /var/cache/oldcache and move all the contents of /var/cache into oldcache or do I move them somewhere outside of
Yes. I adjusted the wiki accordingly. This chapter was copied from the prior update article Leap 15.3->15.4 and wasn’t adjusted properly. Now it is correct.
I am not sure what all the posts above are discussing.
I make an error, I deeply apologize. That the OP does not see whhat should be corrected, I can understand. but all others should ne able to correct me I assume
